Mystery Shawl through Clue 4.

Since I'd last posted, I finished Clue 3 and Clue 4 as well. I actually started Clue 5 last night.

Here's a little picture of my shawl so far. I'd just completed row 203, and gone a half row on the "even" side, so that the knitting was spread evenly on both needles. I didn't semi-block it, I just tried to smooth it out on top of the family room sofa. The yarn is Patons “Lacette” 39% Nylon, 36% Acrylic and 25% Mohair -- the color is “Hint of Rose” (althought I prefer the French name underneath: “Soupçon de Rose"). There will be a total of 6 clues, and then I'll have to pick up the stitches where I began -- removing the the "Provisional Cast-On" in white yarn (which is on the left), and knit the other side just like the first. The earlier link I gave of someone else's knitting shows how much better it looks when the middle (both Clue 1's) are complete.

And, here is a little snippet of what the pattern looks like. I line-off every 5th stitch in red -- it helps me to count on the fly. I highlight each row that I finish, so that it's easy to see the next pattern row that I'm doing. The odd rows are the pattern rows -- the even rows are all k2, p95, k2. This is the start of Clue 5 -- so the row number start at 201.

I think that the counting-by-5 is easy for me because I use it in the picture logic puzzles that I love to do -- at least the version called "Paint by Numbers" in Games magazine, or called Pick-a-Pix on the Conceptis site (http://www.conceptistech.com).